Samples for Bee Crafty's latest shows on Hobby Maker

 Hi There! Did you See Bev and Sam on Monday's Hobby Maker shows? It was so lovely to see them together and back on our screens! 

Here are the samples I made for the first show using the brand new sketchy Birds, sketchy flowers, freehand borders, journaling essentials and mixed messages. There were also 3 new sets of tag inkables and some gorgeous new transparencies.

On these two samples I used the acetates and added a little alcohol ink to the backs of them.

For the swallow I used an acetate and coloured it with alcohol markers. 

For these two samples I created a smooshed background and then added stamping using the journaling essentials and sketchy borders

my seed packet holder would make a quick gift for mothers day, Easter, father's day or even as a wedding favour. 

The second show had the faces range of stamps plus transparencies, and the first three sets of tag inkalbes. There were also some gorgeous new key and cog mdf pop-outs

On Wednesday evening I did a Facebook live and had a lovely time creating this tropical journal spread using the new stamps. You can find the live here

I used:

Sketchy Birds #1

Sketchy Flowers #1

Journaling essentials #1

Freehand Borders #1

mixed messages #1

Tag inkables set 4, 5 and 6

There is also a bundle of the new stamps

The pop outs and the transparencies will be on the website very soon

Thanks for looking! 

Dream Big Dragonfly

 

Hi there! I am here with a step by step today to show how I made this card.

I began by putting stencil tape around a 7x5 blank card.

Next I used the number tag inkable to add some twisted citron  distress oxide.

I used another tag inkable to add some Mermaid Lagoon distress oxide. With the small amount of ink left on the brush I blended along the sides of the tape. 

I used Journal Art Elements 3 to add some stamping with Mustard Seed, Twisted Citron and Mermaid Lagoon before removing the tape.

I stamped, die cut and coloured the dragonfly.

Then I added it to the card using sticky pads, along with a stitched border in uncharted Mariner Distress oxide.

Finally I added one of the new sentiments that are out on Monday!

Here is the finished card once more.

I used:

7x5" white card blank

Tag inkables set 1 & 2

Distress oxide inks in Twisted Citron, Mermaid Lagoon, Mustard Seed and Uncharted Mariner

Journal Art Elements 3 Stamp set

Stitched Borders stamp set

XL Birds and Butterflies stamps and dies

Versafine Clair black ink

Ecoline pens

Gelly Roll stardust pen

New Sentiments (out on Monday!!!)

There are 5 new stamp sets, inkables, transparancies, mdf and other gorgeous stuff on Hobby Maker on Monday at 2pm and 7pm. I will leave you with a little sneaky peek 

Oh, and the new challenge for this month over in the facebook group is Spring Zing. We would love for you to enter! 

Thanks for looking! 

Dreamy Dragonflies

Hi There! I am here with a journal page I created for a class recently. Here is how I made it. 
 

i began by giving the page a coat of  white gesso, then added some Dylusions paint with a wet brush, spraying with a little water to get a more pastel effect.

Next I stamped some of the Doodle Art Mandala stamps onto stamping tissue using Versafine Clair ink

I cut them out and added them to the page using matte medium.

Using the circles Big one inkable and peacock Feathers distress ink I added a bit of stencilling to the background.

I stamped the Script background stamp onto stamping tissue using versafine clair ink and tore it into pieces, adding them around the page with more matte medium. 

I did the same with the dotty circle stamp.

I had some doodle art dragonflies that I had coloured in with pastel ecolines  and cut out. I added them to the page along with the ticker tape sentiment stamped on to white card with black ink. A splatter of white paint and some faux stitching with a posca pen finished it off.

Here is the finished page again. 

I used:

White gesso

Dylusions paint in Peony Blush, Lemon Zest and Blue Lagoon

Doodle Art mandalas #2 stamp set

Journal Art Elements #3 stamp set

script background stamp 

Doodle Art Dragonfly stamp set

Wordage Ticker tape 4 stamp set

Stamping tissue

Versafine Clair ink in Black, Summer Breeze, Purple Delight and Golden Meadow

Peacock feathers distress ink

Inkable Big one Circles 1

Ecolines

Matte Medium

Posca pen

Thanks for looking! 

Look at you Journal pages

 

Hi There! I've been having a play with my dylusions paints that I got recently and made this journal page in my mini Dylusions Journal. Here's what I did:

I began by painting the page with Bubblegum Pink and Laidback Lilac Dylusions paint. 

Once this was dry, I used a white scribble stick through the 4" easy frame heart to add two hearts. 

Next I drew several hearts using the posca pen and the Hearts 6x6 inkable around the edges of the page.

I used black soot distress oxide and the texture disc to add some darker areas to the page.

Next, I stamped some of the texture borders around the page and added some lines in black pen around the larger hearts. 

Whilst the ink dried, I cut out two of the faces from the faces #4 transparencies and added white posca pen to the eyes. I used matte medium to attach these and a sentiment from the wordy stickers to my background, and finished with a splatter of white Dina Wakely gloss spray.

Here is the finished page again. 

I used:

Dylusions creative journal mini

Dylusions paint in Laidback Lilac and Bubblegum Pink

4x4 heart easy frame

Hearts 6x6 inkable

White Scribble stick

white posca pen

Black soot Distress oxide

Inkables texture discs Set 4

Versafine Clair black ink

Texture borders stamp set

Faces #4 transparencies set

Pigma Micron pens

White gloss spray

Wordy stickers 1

Matte medium

Somehow this reminds me of 80s discos. I think she might turn him down though 😂

Thanks for looking! 

Mandala medley

Hi There! I thought I would show you how I made this colourful mandala card. 

On a 14x14cm square of card I stamped a medium sized mandala stamp 3 times overhanging the edges and clear embossed (The embossing isn't necessary if you want to speed up the process.)

Next I stamped the mandalas I had chosen to use on to a stamp and mask sheet and cut them out

I used the masks to cover the mandalas I had already stamped and then stamped over them until the whole of the piece of card was covered in mandalas. If you are embossing it is worth adding the embossing powder after stamping each 2 or 3 mandalas and heat embossing as you go.

if not embossing it is worth heat setting the ink with a little waft of the heat tool at this point. 

next I used the distress inks to paint the mandalas 

whilst this dried I stamped and embossed a sentiment in white on black card and cut it out

I used a pale grey ecoline to add a little shadow around the edges of a few of the circles, and covered a few less than perfect bits of stamping with a sequin or three. I added the sentiment on sticky pads and mounted it on to a card blank. 

Here is the finished card again. 

I used:

14x14cm square of card

Doodle art mandala stamps set 1

Doodle art mandala stamps set 2

Stamp and Mask sheets 

Ticker tape wordage stamps set 4

Distress inks in Peacock feathers, Fossilized Amber, Crackling Campfire and Uncharted Mariner 

Grey ecoline pen

15x15cm card blank

black card for matting and layering and adding a sentiment 

Versafine Clair black ink

Versamark embossing ink

Clear embossing powder if required

On Wednesday evening I completed another page in my Grafix media journal, this time on black Duralar. You can see the live here

Thanks for looking! 

Wild and Free Bee Tag

Hi There! Thought I would show you how I made this mdf tag for Bee Monarchy day. 

I began by painting the MDF tag using acrylic paints. Some of these were shimmer/metallic and some were not. I painted them onto the tag blending the edges.  

Next I used black gesso through the full honeycomb inkable and added a little more around the edges.

Once this was dry I added some stamping using the crowns and honeycomb stamps from the bee Monarchy set using a brown versafine Clair ink.

on a scrap piece of card I stamped the bee 3 times with versafine clair black ink. I coloured them with ecoline pens and cut them out using the die set. 

I stamped a sentiment from the small words set and added that and the bees to the tag using ultra thick gel medium. 

Here is the finished tag with a little yellow ribbon though. 

I used:

MDF tag 

Dylusions paint in lemon Zest and Tangerine dream

Dylusions shimmer paint in Pure sunshine

Dina Wakely Gilt paint

black gesso

Honeycomb full inkable

Bee Monarchy stamp set

Versafine Clair in black and brown

Small words stamp set

Thanks for looking!